The Passion of the Book: The Gospel of Truth as Valentinian Scriptural Practice

• Autores: Anne Kreps
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 311-335
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Son combats ignorance by revealing the gospel. Because the Son thwarts Error, "Error became angry at him. "64 The book governs this relationship: the "living book of the living appears in their hearts," the book in which their own names had been inscribed.65 This is Jesus's act of revelation: the text claims, "nothing could have appeared among the ones who believed in salvation, if that book had not come into the midst. . Because of this, he took up that book because he knows that his death is life for many. [...]a Roman edict was protected as an Objet de loi-if someone purposefully destroyed or defaced an edict after it was published, the offender was severely fined. [...]the text suggests its own form of imitatio Christi, not through the act of suffering martyrdom, but through the production of revelatory knowledge residing in the heart.